Illinois Democrats want to make the state’s popular private school scholarships contingent on fully funding all public schools, something they don’t typically do.… MORE
Illinois Democrats want to make the state’s popular private school scholarships contingent on fully funding all public schools, something they don’t typically do.… MORE
Illinois lawmakers continue to look at ways to attract teachers.… MORE
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., had plenty to say after the school shooting in Broward County, Florida that has left 17 dead.… MORE
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the family of a Twin-Cities woman who drowned last summer when her inflatable raft went over the Wilmington Dam on the Kankakee River.… MORE
Critics of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget address say the proposal to shift the cost of pensions to school districts and universities will bring about a massive property tax increase.… MORE
Gov. Bruce Rauner renewed his call for economic and structural reforms Wednesday in the final budget address of his first term while also proposing that pension and health care costs be shifted to local governments.… MORE
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says he has no plans to resign in the wake of allegations his political operation slow-walked an investigation of a staffer alleging sexual harassment by a supervisor.… MORE
There are two more laboratory-confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease at the troubled Quincy veterans’ home.… MORE
A high-ranking member of House Speaker Mike Madigan’s political organization has been fired after an investigation into sexual harassment allegations, Madigan said Monday.… MORE
President Donald Trump has unveiled his national tax and spending plan, which is raising questions from legislators on both sides of the aisle.… MORE
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…